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arxiv: 0802.4289 · v2 · submitted 2008-02-29 · ❄️ cond-mat.mes-hall · cond-mat.str-el

Quantum critical transport in clean graphene

classification ❄️ cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.str-el
keywords transportquantumalphaconductivitycriticaldirectiondistributionfrequencies
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We describe electrical transport in ideal single-layer graphene at zero applied bias. There is a crossover from collisionless transport at frequencies larger than k_B T/hbar (T is the temperature) to collision-dominated transport at lower frequencies. The d.c. conductivity is computed by the solution of a quantum Boltzmann equation. Due to a logarithmic singularity in the collinear scattering amplitude (a consequence of relativistic dispersion in two dimensions) quasi-particles and -holes moving in the same direction tend to an effective equilibrium distribution whose parameters depend on the direction of motion. This property allows us to find the non-equilibrium distribution functions and the quantum critical conductivity exactly to leading order in 1/|ln(alpha)| where alpha is the coupling constant characterizing the Coulomb interactions.

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